Fantastic piece, Rachel, I can fully relate to your descriptions of watching Twin Peaks when it aired back in 1990-91, as I did too, and that sense not only of 'finding things underneath things', but suddenly furious to find more! Your amazingly apt description of Mulholland Drive as a 'snaking möbius strip' is spot on as well.
I felt that same sense of loss at Lynch's passing, as if an essential guide has just left and we're now even more 'on our own' to find our way forward than we were before.
Have you seen 'Inland Empire'? .. Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, and Twin Peaks are all absolutely incredible, but if you loved those films and you haven't yet seen Inland Empire, set aside several hours and allow yourself to be immersed in that one, and know in advance that it bears experiencing more than once (like all the rest...)!
Thank you so much Doug - it's great to hear the piece resonates. Yes, we have lost a big light. I have to admit I've started watching Inland Empire but never (yet) managed to make it to the end. I feel I need to make space for it, as you suggest, and allow myself to be fully immersed...
That's what happened with me, the first time I tried watching IE .. it was almost too much, I couldn't track what was going on, and I stopped about an hour in. It helped to read a little bit about it, how it was made, some interpretations, and then to devote the time where I could watch it not as passive entertainment per se, but as if reading a work of literature. I hope you get the chance, and wish you a great experience with it!
I was a devoted Twin Peaks fan too...
Thinking about it brought back so many memories... I think Lynch was really dialling into something...
Fantastic piece, Rachel, I can fully relate to your descriptions of watching Twin Peaks when it aired back in 1990-91, as I did too, and that sense not only of 'finding things underneath things', but suddenly furious to find more! Your amazingly apt description of Mulholland Drive as a 'snaking möbius strip' is spot on as well.
I felt that same sense of loss at Lynch's passing, as if an essential guide has just left and we're now even more 'on our own' to find our way forward than we were before.
Have you seen 'Inland Empire'? .. Mulholland Drive, Lost Highway, and Twin Peaks are all absolutely incredible, but if you loved those films and you haven't yet seen Inland Empire, set aside several hours and allow yourself to be immersed in that one, and know in advance that it bears experiencing more than once (like all the rest...)!
Thank you so much Doug - it's great to hear the piece resonates. Yes, we have lost a big light. I have to admit I've started watching Inland Empire but never (yet) managed to make it to the end. I feel I need to make space for it, as you suggest, and allow myself to be fully immersed...
That's what happened with me, the first time I tried watching IE .. it was almost too much, I couldn't track what was going on, and I stopped about an hour in. It helped to read a little bit about it, how it was made, some interpretations, and then to devote the time where I could watch it not as passive entertainment per se, but as if reading a work of literature. I hope you get the chance, and wish you a great experience with it!
Thanks Doug - I like your approach of treating it as a work of literature and certainly hope to give it another go soon, thanks to you!